001Right, we will wait till we get the okay from our production crew. >> Board members, thank you. Last week marked the beginning of the brand new school year. And even though on the first day we encountered just a few challenges, the overall day was a tremendous success. Our students walked into warm welcoming buildings and were greeted by the energy and enthusiasm of our staff. That was awesome to watch. Even more encouraging, the momentum carried throughout the week with very positive experiences reported across the district. To kick things off tonight and to set the tone for our meeting, I'd like to share a short video with you. It's a celebration of our students first week and a testament to the incredible efforts of our teachers, support staff, and our building leaders. It's the perfect way to
002begin our time together tonight here in August. Roll the video, please. [Music] board members. We've had a a really good start for the first two weeks. I want to thank you for helping us lead the way. We'll comment a little bit more as we get into the meeting on how some of the new laws and policies have worked and uh have the discussion in greater detail, but for now I think that is a good way to start the meeting. So, thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Uh is there a motion to approve the consent items as presented? >> Some move. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion? All in favor? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. On to safety and security. >> See, I'd like to introduce to you Darlene Santiago Dodson,
003our new director of safety and security for the Ray Peek district. Darlene brings a wealth of experience and has jumped head first into her role. We have her really busy right now. She's going to talk to you a little bit about all her activities so far. First few weeks, she's conducted safety walkthroughs in our buildings, engaged with principles and staff, and already working on ideas that, you know, we'll discuss a little bit later uh in the school year as she as he puts her notes together. tonight. She's going to provide a broad overview of what she's doing for our team and who she is as a professional to help you understand how we're making this role connect with our kids. So, Darlene, it's all yours. >> Uh, good evening. So, first I want to start
004off by saying that I absolutely love and I'm so blessed to be here and part of this team. You know, I can't tell you that everybody I've met uh when I do security inquiries is always says, "You're going to love it here at Rayek." and that, you know, that's that's so welcoming and I truly have loved my first couple of months. So, I just want to say that I'm truly blessed to be here. Um, so, um, my background, I've have over 21 years of public security background. Uh, 17 of it was in law enforcement. Uh and then there was corrections, uh child advocacy and um now security director of higher ed and K through2 experience. So it's different, uh facets of experience in the public safety realm. So uh oh, did I hit something? Oh
005no, I'm sorry. So anyway, so I want to start by telling you um right now, well, I gave my introduction. Oh, am I I'm hitting the wrong one. Sorry. Okay. So, uh the current safety initiatives, so what I'm doing we're doing right now are security assessments. Um emergency response plan is up there because as I do the assessments, I'm taking notes because we have to update those response plans that we have and we have to build upon them. So, it's kind of they're concurrent, but the security assessments are the focus right now. Um so to do a security assessment you have to identify assets, identify and analyze potential threats, evaluate vulnerabilities, you assess, you know, um impact and likelihood of risk, you mitigate and control risk, and you monitor and review constantly. >> Oh, wrong
006way again. So we use a multi-tered approach. So I I I used a latte because everybody can relate to a latte, right? Because there's you see the layers. So that's the same with the security approach that we need to take. It's layered approach. So exposure management, it's consistent identification, assessing, looking for mitigation. That's a constant. It's constant. It it never stops. Okay? You identify gaps. That's consistent. Then access control speaks for itself. being careful who gets access. How do we how do we prevent access for somebody who shouldn't be here? Then uh crisis response capabilities. What are we prepared for? What are we capable of doing? What could we do today? What can we possibly do tomorrow? So you look for those things. Crisis response capabilities today and the future. Forward projection. And then policy
007and procedures review. Well, that's also constant. There's always room for improvement. what policy and procedure might have been good for last month, maybe now this month, we got to look at it and review it. So, it's it's a constant evaluation. So, part of the multi-ter approach, there's community training. Okay. Um I mean training is always part of any kind of and then the culture and climate insight. That's a critical component because for security assessment especially because technical controls they don't defend against human centric risk. >> So we can't ignore the human factor and to conduct a security assessment for an organization. This is critical to the security posture of an organization. So I like to focus on that the culture and climate insights and then transportation and events and then of course cyber security which
008is the technical controls. So the deliverables so as I do the security assessment what's going to be delivered is there's going to be a summary report. uh within the report there's going to be a priority risk matrix and all then from the priority risk matrix summary of reports then there's a roadmap for action and then obviously the communication plan at the end so how are we going to communicate this road mapap for action how are we going to execute it so basically that's what I'm doing right now and uh got some buildings done and uh That's what we're focusing on. >> Obviously, the the safety and security is utmost importance for all of our family and we've seen what's going on right in the the news. So, I do appreciate you're letting us know what
009we're doing. It's timely. Probably didn't plan time on that, but um we all are very invested in in that. So, we appreciate it. >> Thank you. We've tentatively scheduled additional conversations on this in the fall, either October or November. It's going to be dependent upon um I think our conversations when Darlene brings back some information, we kind of filter it out and try to figure out okay what what's high priority, what's you know medium priority. But we are committed to at least one maybe two more discussions with the board more formally in work sessions. Uh the first one will be this fall sometime and the next one will be in the uh second semester. >> Well, thank you. I for one am very excited that we have someone now dedicated to this. Not that our
010previous person wasn't, but I mean it's a it's hard to have too many hats in the ring when you're when you have your position. So, thank you for what you do and the um service you bring with you to it. Thank you. >> Got one. >> Yeah. >> Do you feel you have enough staff to help you at this point or are we still maybe a little bit behind or >> Well, you know, right now I'm assessing. So all that comes into the assessment. I I can't really answer that right now because I'm in the assessment stage. Uh for doing assessments, I I'm I'm I'm okay. I'm doing them, you know, methodically and taking my time. But the you don't know for the pre future. But for right now, the assessments will they'll reveal that.
011>> Okay. >> If necessary. >> Ask the question. I I was I said, "Will some of this be a close session matter versus an open session matter?" >> Yeah. And I after we see I think some of the conversations, those items that are going to be of mission critical importance and also would uh allow the bad guys to know what we're doing, we can put those in close. The more general stuff we'll talk about and open. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. On to action items. our favorite subject to heavy equipment. >> Very much so. >> All right. Excited this evening. We have several action items uh to bring forth you. All are uh pertain to um the lead center expansion and a lot of career and CTE technical uh programming
012expansion. And again, I want to make sure it's uh brought forth here that a lot of these items this evening are again brought to you by another DESI grant. So uh congratulations to the team there and everybody's hard work on those grants. they are allowing some great expansion of the CTE programs and some awesome new opportunities. So, with that being said, the first one uh this evening was with the Desi Grant um and some capital projects funding. It has been identified that some compaction equipment is needed out at the HO program to allow for the students a to learn those pieces of equipment also for real world training. um kind of a beginning level position at a lot of construction companies throughout your first couple years and then also to be able to put the
013land back that they are working on on a daily basis. So with that um we reached out to a lot of vendors throughout the Kansas City area um a lot of partners that we have engaged in the program and we felt that a used piece of machinery for the first large compactor uh was the best value to the district and we are looking to move forward with that uh purchase of a cat CP5 full-size compactor um from Foley Caterpillar here in Kansas City >> answer any questions >> with the addition that we approved last month for building space do we have enough space to store these now >> for the most part Yep. Some of these pieces of equipment were never intended to go inside. They are by far way too large. Okay. For interior
014that uh yes. >> Okay. >> Not all of them will go inside, but uh happy to report this actually left there before coming here. Piece of equipment uh from a couple months ago was actually just dropped off uh probably by about 5:30 tonight. So, they're all out there. So, it's pretty cool. >> All right. I will entertain a motion to approve the quote from CAT CP5 full-size compactor from Caterpillar Caterpillar utilizing the cooperative purchasing through Source Weld in the amount of $128,300. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any other discussion? All in favor? Motion passes unanimously. On to the trench compactor. >> Yes. again staying with that same theme um for the students to go ahead and learn how to compact all their ditches that they're digging. Very valuable aspect
015of the career as well. So with that just be a more specialized piece of equipment that the students would utilize uh in their everyday work as well and this would be from Bobcat. Um there are several manufacturers of these working through all of them and demoing a few. Uh this is what we felt brought the best value and the lowest cost to the school district. So, we'd like to move forward with the purchase of a Bobcat TR75 trench compactor from Casey Bobcat. >> Do we have a trailer if you know I was just thinking with our students worked on the integrated learning house. Do we have a trailer that we can transport some of these smaller pieces between buildings if needed? >> We utilize the buildings and grounds. >> Okay. Okay. >> Yeah. Nothing direct
016for the program, but we utilize >> Well, no, that that's fine. >> Yep. All right. Is there a motion to approve the quote for a Bobcat TR75 trench compactor from Bobcat utilizing the cooperative purchasing through Sourcewell in the amount of $36,384.71? >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any other discussion? All in favor? Motion passes unanimously. On to the machining program equipment. >> Yes. All right. As many of you are aware, machine programs, one of our first CT programs that we established here in this building and now moved up to the lead center. With that, we're looking to do a small movement around with that building um for those programs and looking to move a few lint and borrowed pieces of equipment from Metropolitan Community College. go ahead and remove those
017machines and take them back to MCC and purchase some replacements of those machines and also some expansion of those machines as well uh to add from some more student engagement and be able to have our student to machine ratio a little bit better in the building. So with that, we'd like to move forward uh in the purchase of 11 total pieces of equipment from Ikeman Sales and Associates and happy to answer questions on that one. >> All right. Is there a motion to approve the quote for machining equipment from Ikeman Sales Associates LLC as a sole Missouri distributor in the amount of 334,340? >> Moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any other discussion? All in favor? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Dobson. >> Uh on to board policies.
018Dr. Slegel. >> Thank you, Scott. Well done. Uh board members, tonight under the action portion of your agenda, you'll find two board policies requiring immediate approval. I have communicated these policies to you in your update a couple of weeks ago. Uh both are in response to recent legislative mandates. The first relates to schoolboard elections and the second concerns student cell phone or or digital communication devices uh usage during the school day. Each policy comes to you tonight with a recommendation for approval um following the requirement to align with state law. While these two are time-sensitive, please know that we do continue to work through our normal policy process. We had to circumvent it this time to get it on on the books quickly because those those laws actually went into effect today. So, we would
019like to get some policy language to be compliant with those expectations from legislation. Um, again, this recommendation comes to you with uh recommendation for approval. Thank you. >> All right. Is there a motion to approve board policies P 0320 and P2626 as presented? >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Go ahead. >> Um, do we just have to come up with a policy? Do we is there language as far as what happens when those students don't comply with board policy. >> Yeah, great qu are you talking about the digital communications device >> like with this with the cell phones? What's the I mean what are the consequences if they've got it out? >> Yes. So the state law was written in such a way that all school district
020boards would have to pass a policy prohibiting the use of those of those devices from the beginning of the bell to the end of the day. Okay. It left up to the discretion of the districts what consequences would be applied for violation. So our teams led by Dr. Hoff and Dr. Bolt have worked with our principles to develop kind of a matrix of what would be the expectations and what would be the consequences for violating those expectations. So it's a multi-tered uh level of approach. Um I'll ask both of you to come to the podium real quick. I'll put you on the spot. Uh I think we all want to know how well this has gone for this first couple of weeks. So let's have that discussion now. Um, and again, we haven't rehearsed this,
021so I I want your honest feedback on this because I'm curious, too. >> Well, I'll speak from the secondary level. I think um pleasantly surprised is probably it sums it up. Our administrators are actually very happy with how it's going. In fact, um the comments have been kids are actually talking to one another at lunch and speaking and visiting and having fun. Um so, it's gone very well. We've had maybe just a couple incidents that I know of in the last two weeks where um it's not the student being belligerent or anything like that. They gave up their phone, but we did have to start putting our consequences interventions. I'd like to call them because it's actually like like Dr. Seel said, it's multi-tered. So, um only one that I know of that we had
022to take it and return it at the end of the day. But our our administrators and teachers are very very pleased with how it's going and and surprised. Um happy kids is what we've been hearing. >> Have you had any push back from parents? we one situation in one building, but I if I'm being very honest, um the digital advice device may have triggered it, but it was something that was related to something much bigger than the device. And in elementary, you can probably imagine this wasn't a huge shift for us. Our littles have never had their phones out in and such in school. We've had a couple of um concerns about smartwatches and through wonderful conversation by our principles with those families, they've been able to work through the parents concern. It's mostly about
023either coordination with another parent um or just what how's my child going to manage that device so that I know they have that going to and from school. But um very very little to write home about and I think that's positive. I have heard the comment. >> Can you turn your mic on, please? >> I have heard the comment. Pleasantly surprised. >> So, so far >> secondary very very happy with what they've been seeing. >> I think we all had very scared low expectations. But on both the teacher side um and then on the parent side, we've been in um involved in parent discussions where we are having to redo our thinking because it's always been just very easy >> to text them. And so it's it's uh it's been very very wellreceived and like
024a oh >> we probably need to um engage in some of that also. So, I'd asked the question also um of you Dr. Siggel. So, I appreciate the information that you're providing and it's probably something that >> I know I'll speak for myself maybe for you guys. I'd like to have some you know updates throughout the year as we're >> everyone is dealing with this um across both Kansas and Missouri. I've talked to a lot that they're like it's really good. So, we appreciate it. >> Yeah, absolutely. they'll be happy to provide get our team to provide updates as we move along in this. I I do want to, you know, thank our parents and our students uh for making this shift uh so we can come here on this Thursday night and say it's
025gone surprisingly well. I think our communications plan that started back first part of July that set the stage for the expectations and the why. I mean, it's a pretty strong why about where why we're headed here. That makes everybody maybe not like it, but clarity brings comfort, right? So if they understand the clarity behind the why um then it's more comforting when you actually have to implement what you have to implement. So overall that's what I've been hearing too. I wanted to make sure you had heard it and honestly we had not rehearsed that at all but those when I'm in the buildings asking the principles asking teachers and really our students how's it going I I don't get the pleasantly surprised is a good way to characterize it. So thank you. >> Thank you.
026Great question. All right. I will entertain a motion to approve. And do we have a motion? >> Oh, okay. All in favor? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you, ladies. All right. Committee reports. I don't know if anybody's really met at any committees yet. So, superintendent's update. >> Yes. Thank you, board. Uh, for my update since our last meeting, a lot has happened across the district. We welcomed almost 50 new classroom teachers and nearly 100 new team members overall since July 1st. These educators and staff members have hit the ground running and already building strong relationships with our kids and by evidence of the first couple of weeks of school. Our annual convocation, as you know, was held on August the 12th. Was a great success. Energy in the room was electric and a lot of fun.
027Uh share your magic was the theme and it captured the the kind of intentional student centered approach that we want to carry into the year. Um, we talked a little bit about the first day of school. Brief power outage went well. But I really want to thank our building leaders as well as our school community for rallying around that situation. Uh, it could have been a huge disaster and we got students home safely. Uh, unfortunately 12 minutes after we called school, the power came back on. Um, it was noted, but at the same time, we had already decided to let kids go and that was the right decision based on the information we had at the time. One of my favorite traditions continues this year. We captured the first day moment with our kindergarteners. We
028took over 425 first day kindergarten pictures. Uh it just wasn't adorable. It was a communication tool that helped us build trust for our community. Those will go out this week, I believe. Maybe next week. Excellent. We'll get those home to parents um in the next few days. Looking ahead, please mark your calendars for September 11th at 5:00 pm. Information has gone out. That will be the night where we'll formally dedic dedicate our new integrated learning house. That event will take place just ahead of that scheduled work session. We'll have a general open house later in the fall for the entire community. This dedication is primarily for those that uh were part of the bill team. So, uh and the funders of that bill team. And finally, you'll notice in your upcoming materials tomorrow uh in
029our update uh detailed outline of our new communications focus this year called choice happens here. Uh this is an initiative designed to spotlight the all the opportunities that our students have. It's an effort to make clear to our families and to our community that Rayek just isn't a great district. It's a district of options and a district of choice. And I look forward to your feedback on this campaign as we continue. So thank you. >> Dr. I have a question. >> Um, do those days have to be made up >> due to the power outage? >> No, they do not. Uh, because according to the law, we are in session long enough. We'll just adjust the time on that and we will be well above the state minimum for time and that day will count
030as a day of attendance. >> Okay. >> Because the kids did show up and teachers were there. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Good question. All right. On to board of education comments. It was a um interesting first day. Um lots of pictures. I think it was the first time it had rained in a very long time for the first day of school. But um all the teachers, all the comments. It has been a really good uh time back. So appreciate all of that and everything that goes in. Convocation was fantastic. It was really good. Loved seeing everyone there. and um just appreciate all the the effort that goes into bringing every single person into the school at the same time. >> Thank you. All right, on to calendar of events. September 4th is our MSBA
031regional meeting in Liberty. Uh we'll get uh text sent out on communicating, getting together to ride together. Uh September 11th, as he said, at 5:00 PM is our dedication for the integrated learning house. 6 pm is our work session. And then September 25th is our next regular meeting. 6 pm closed, 7 p.m. open. And seeing nothing else, we are adjourned. Thank you guys.